25 St. James's Street
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18 September - 10 November 2002

360 corp. Boutique

One of our great strengths is our ability to evolve - because we are so adaptable, we are in danger of meaning everything and nothing - Director, 360 corp. Point-of-Sale marks a wonderful new departure for us, as a company, an indication of great things to come - as we extend into the retail and European sectors - Chairman of the Board. A Joint-Venture with The Economist is just the sort of brand association we are happy to be part of. The corresponding increase in stock value is merely one of the more tangible benefits - Finance Director. At 360 corp. we commit dedicated teams of creative professionals to research and infiltrate the arena of product development, the wholese of ideas and retail.
We use the cause of reflected market economics. Where there is simply, we question demand, ultimately for the benefit of the consumer, within a free market economy, tied into a relative global economy.

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After much soul-searching, wehave abandoned false ideologies and any sense of integrity. This is done with you in mind. A place where corporate and personal identity are brought together and merged into the hybrid identity we have become.

Knowing your place within this fixed economy can help you free up your associations and therefore make the right consumer choices, to lead to a happier and more fulfilled retail experience. A world of wholesale ideas masquerading as retail therapy, where the unique mingles with the not so unique.

After outsourcing much of our production, anything posing as unique is inevitably reproducible - our gift to you.

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Ben Fitton
 

La Barricade de la Rue Basfroi follows a series of similar works that Fitton has produced during the past year,within both gallery settings and publications. Foocusing on transient politcised structures and systems, Fitton creates silhouettes from wooden garden trellis-work. Panels are cut to form the outline of a chosen image and then located in the exhbition space, fastened to a wall, as trellis would normally be installed.

For The Economist plaza, the outline of the trellis panels is extracted directly from a photograph taken on the first day of the insurrection that led to the formation of the Paris Commune in 1871. A group of men, soldiers, pse before, atop and behind an irregular barricade; some with rifles others with drums. There are also a number of women and a dog. The barricade is fashioned from paving stones, torn from the street and pile about eix or seven feet high. Gaps in its construction reveal a pairt of cannons, their barrels pointing somewhere above the head of the photographer.

Situated on the north wall of the plaza, behind a row of benches, the trellis outline of the barricade quietly implicates seated pedestrians in its pictoral space. Directly opposite, below the southern perimeter, are offices of BNP Paribas, a private French bank whose history is intertwined with the rebuilding of industrial Paris after both the February Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune.

Fitton originally from Sheffield, lives and works in London. He graduated from the MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2001. He has exhibitied nationally since 1996, including Overhang at Site Gallery, Sheffield (1999), Nerve at the ICA, London (1999), Unfound at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2000), Tippi Hedren at VTO, London (2001) and most recently at IBID.Projects, London (January 2002).

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